Using emojis with driver.type

[benfrankie]

Hi, I'm encountering an issue when using driver.type() with text containing emojis. The error message I receive is: "ChromeDriver only supports characters in the BMP," which I believe is due to the presence of emojis in the text.

Here's a snippet of the code that's causing the issue:

generated_reply = "Hello! 😊 How can I assist you today?"
driver.type("#new-message-textarea", generated_reply)

Is there a way to handle emojis and other non-BMP characters with driver.type() or any workaround you would recommend to avoid triggering detection while entering text in a textarea?

Thank you for your help!

[mdmintz]

Convert to unicode first. There's more info on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/61043442/7058266